Home Brewing Biography:I had been asked by so many people who knew of my love for beer if I brewed my own, then I'd hear them tell a story about this friend of theirs who brewed, bla bla bla. I never looked in to how it was done, I just assumed it took a lot of work/time/money and I figured the results were probably mediocre at best, but one day I was watching my favorite food network show, Good Eats, and Alton Brown made beer. I thought "hey I can do that". The only problem was that I lived in a barracks and I couldn't do it there. Solution: I bought an entire extract brewing setup for my dad's birthday in January '08. I went home almost every weekend and we brewed together. It just snowballed from there.

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Posted in thread: Pensacola Fl June 1 to June 12 on 02-25-2012 at 05:50 PMMostly because this thread is from '09 and it opened in Oct 2010. Thanks for bringing up a good
memory though!

Posted in thread: CFC Users: How do you get it clean and keep it clean? on 02-17-2012 at 09:10 PMI am hesitantly pleased to announce that after a few cycles of PBW soak, wait an hour, purge,
soak, wait an hour, etc, I have seen nothing but clean solution coming out. Either I did a
really good job...

Posted in thread: Hydrometer Calibration on 02-17-2012 at 08:52 PMI am prepping for my first brew in 10 months. I expect to make some mistakes and run into some
speed bumps, so I'm doing most of the prep a day in advance. One thing I decided to do is check
the calib...

Posted in thread: Is PBW the same as Oxyclean on 02-12-2012 at 10:15 PMthis stinks of pure guerilla marketing by the makers of PBW. why wouldn’t he just mention the
name of the product? Because advertisers are taught to be vague when they could be sued!He even
has a TEST...

Posted in thread: CFC Users: How do you get it clean and keep it clean? on 02-12-2012 at 06:29 PMAZ, what kind of hose do you have? I know some people used a more heat resistant rubber hose
but I went with the cheap-o vinyl one. I might consider rigging up a gravity feed for a good
hot cleaning. ...

Posted in thread: CFC Users: How do you get it clean and keep it clean? on 02-12-2012 at 06:19 PMWhat works for me (*crosses fingers*); I store it full of water and use those small red caps
that fit on 3/8" copper pipe.While I'm heating the sparge water, I heat an extra couple of
gallons, and whi...

Posted in thread: CFC Users: How do you get it clean and keep it clean? on 02-12-2012 at 06:07 PMHey all, it has been quite a while since I posted or even read anything here, mostly because it
has been quite a while since I brewed anything! About 10 months to be precise, but it is time
to get bac...

Posted in thread: "Hop Dust" making my IPA harsh on 03-17-2011 at 03:32 PMMy latest batch of IPA has a problem that a few of my past batches have faced as well. I dry
hopped it in the keg using 2oz simcoe pellets in a mesh hop bag for 10 days at 68*F. It now has
a very fine...